Riversdale Court: A Novel, Volume 1Tinsley, 1878 |
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... hope , wiser , " I added , with a precocious wisdom , the result of constant companionship with persons older than myself , " but well and happy , as at the present , perhaps . " " Yes , we may all remain as we are ; never- theless ...
... hope , wiser , " I added , with a precocious wisdom , the result of constant companionship with persons older than myself , " but well and happy , as at the present , perhaps . " " Yes , we may all remain as we are ; never- theless ...
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... hope there really was little or nothing the matter with me . The symptoms of ill health I suffered might be the same in feeling and appearance as those of Alice Irskin , but might they not result from a wholly different cause — a cause ...
... hope there really was little or nothing the matter with me . The symptoms of ill health I suffered might be the same in feeling and appearance as those of Alice Irskin , but might they not result from a wholly different cause — a cause ...
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... hope than at all aware of . I now seemed as if moving and speaking in my sleep ; but I know I was very calm and , fortunately , self- controlled . Thank you , Doctor Mardyke , for the trouble you have taken , and for so honestly telling ...
... hope than at all aware of . I now seemed as if moving and speaking in my sleep ; but I know I was very calm and , fortunately , self- controlled . Thank you , Doctor Mardyke , for the trouble you have taken , and for so honestly telling ...
Page 54
... hope , and remembers no more the darksome sepulchre o'er which they are blooming . Presently steps came along the gravel path , and anon a winsome face , the glittering golden . curls falling back like a veil around a head surmounted 54 ...
... hope , and remembers no more the darksome sepulchre o'er which they are blooming . Presently steps came along the gravel path , and anon a winsome face , the glittering golden . curls falling back like a veil around a head surmounted 54 ...
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... influence that our hearts filled high with hope . How mine are dashed down after Charles's foreboding words of this morning I leave you to judge . " Mamma dear , Charley and I are planning to EXTRACTS FROM SARIANN'S DIARY . 55.
... influence that our hearts filled high with hope . How mine are dashed down after Charles's foreboding words of this morning I leave you to judge . " Mamma dear , Charley and I are planning to EXTRACTS FROM SARIANN'S DIARY . 55.
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Page 263 - She is far from the land where her young hero sleeps, And lovers around her are sighing; But coldly she turns from their gaze, and weeps, For her heart in his grave is lying. She sings the wild songs of her dear native plains, Every note which he loved awaking — Ah! little they think, who delight in her strains, How the heart of the minstrel is breaking!
Page 70 - The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made: Stronger by weakness, wiser men become As they draw near to their eternal home. Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view That stand upon the threshold of the new.